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Video: Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions – Series on the evolutionary origins of emotion

 

See Academic Earth  for more.  There are various lectures from MIT, Harvard.

The rest of the series

 

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

This class is an introduction to the evolutionary analysis of human emotions, how they work, why they exist, and what they communicate. In particular, this lecture discusses three interesting case studies, that of happiness (e.g., smiling), fear and the emotions we feel towards our relatives. Finally, this lecture ends with a brief discussion of babies' emotional responses to their caregivers.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can't we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning,memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Video: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamad discusses the financial crisis of 2009 versus 1929.

Liaquat Ahamed discusses his book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, and covers the 2009 financial crisis.

The date of this talk is June 9, 2009  so he may have spoken too soon when he said we have averted a depression.   USA debt just hit annual GDP number.  That is a bad sign.  Real unemployment is still north of 16%.  That said his talk includes interesting economic history of the Federal Reserve and gold standard.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

How to remove XP Internet Security 2012

Spyware / virus lept onto my machine somewhere!  Following worked on my desktop.

This process seems to have worked.

On my laptop I had a similar redirector.  After I used the above tools internet explorer would not work.  For that I used the following tool.  This worked.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Video: Milton Friedmans Free to Choose

Milton Friedman is inspiring.   This is the first episode of Free to Choose.  You will see the rest of the 10 episodes listed to the right side.  Friedman's questioners in the post presentation look like naive amateurs in contrast.  

America's freedom and prosperity derive from the combination of the idea of human liberty in America's Declaration of Independence with the idea of economic freedom in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Friedman explains how markets and voluntary exchange organize activity and enable people to improve their lives. He also explains the price system. Friedman visits Hong Kong, U.S. and Scotland.

Episode #1

  • Friedman: When you have more government the industrialists take it over 
  • Galvin:  I think there are good people running this society  – Ouch how naive!
  • We need to see much more of the invisible hands!

Google Video Search: Milton Friedman Free to Choose

…..more 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Double Quantum dots and electron spin control

The terminology makes it appear as if he is talking about a FET with source, drain and gate.

A lecture explaining Double Quantum Dots during the 2011 Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP) at the Institute for Quantum Computing.

Series of USEQIP 2011 series of videos

For more:
http://iqc.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/useqip2011
iqc.uwaterloo.ca
www.facebook.com/QuantumIQC
Twitter: @QuantumIQC

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago